Cast
Robert Webber
Acting
Cast
Robert Webber
Known for
Acting
Born
1924-10-14
From
Santa Ana, California, USA
Died
1989-05-19
Biography
Over his 40-year career as one of Hollywood's veteran character actors, Robert Webber always marked his spot by playing all types of roles and was not stereotyped into playing just one kind of character. Sometimes he even got to play a leading role (see Hysteria (1965)). Webber first started out in small stage shows and a few Broadway plays and served a stint in the army before he landed the role of Juror 12 in 12 Angry Men (1957). He was also known for numerous war films, playing Lee Marvin's general in The Dirty Dozen (1967) or as real-life Admiral Frank J. Fletcher in Midway (1976). Webber's other best known movies include The Great White Hope (1970), Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), 10 (1979) (as composer Dudley Moore's lyricist partner), Private Benjamin (1980), Wild Geese II (1985) and co-starring with Richard Dreyfuss and Barbra Streisand as prosecutor Francis McMillian in Nuts (1987). In 1989 he died of Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) in Malibu, California, shortly after completing the 1988 TV production Something Is Out There (1988) (TV). He bore a resemblance to character actor Kevin McCarthy.
12 Angry Men
as Juror 12
Midway
as Admiral Jack Fletcher
The Dirty Dozen
as General Denton
10
as Hugh
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self (archive footage)
Harper
as Dwight Troy
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
as Sappensly
Assassin
as Calvin Lantz
Private Benjamin
as Col. Clay Thornbush
Nuts
as Francis MacMillan
Revenge of the Pink Panther
as Philippe Douvier
S.O.B.
as Ben Coogan
Shooting Stars
as Woodrow Norton
Cutter
as Meredith
Who Dares Wins
as General Ira Potter
Highway 301
as William "Bill" Phillips
The Silencers
as Sam Gunther
Courage fuyons
as Charley
The Stripper
as Ricky Powers
The Accuser
as American executive
Madame Claude
as Howard
The Choirboys
as Deputy Chief Riggs
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
as Milo Stewart
Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land
as Felix
Wild Geese II
as Robert McCann
Manon 70
as Ravaggi
The Sandpiper
as Ward Hendricks
Wrong Is Right
as Harvey
Casey's Shadow
as Mike Marsh
Don't Make Waves
as Rod Prescott
Flatfoot in Hong Kong
as Sam Accardo
Half Nelson
as Harrison
Sunday Lovers
as Henry Morrison (segment "The French Method")
The Third Day
as Dom Guardiano
The Two Lives of Carol Letner
as Ed Leemans
The Young Runaways
as Fred Lockhart
Not Just Another Affair
as Professor Wally Dawson
Getting Physical
as Hugh Gibley
Double Indemnity
as Edward Norton
Hysteria
as Chris Smith
Gardenia
as Tony Caruso
No Man's Land
as Will Blackfield
Hauser's Memory
as Dorsey
The Great White Hope
as Dixon
The Nun and the Sergeant
as Sgt. McGrath
Thief
as James Calendar
Death Steps in the Dark
as Inspector
Answers
as Ted Talbot (Segment "Twinkle, Twinkle")
Don't Go to Sleep
as Dr. Cole
The Big Bounce
as Bob Rodgers
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as Attorney
The Movie Murderer
as Karel Kessler
The Streets of L.A.
as Ralph Salkin
Macédoine
as Sanderberg
A Statue for "The Sandpiper"
as Self
In Like Flynn
as Col. Harper
The Hired Killer
as Clint Harris
Every Man Is My Enemy
as Tony Costa
Hit Squad
as Mr. Douglas
The Dangerous Mission
as Sergeant John Lewis
The Ladies
as Jerry
Death Stalk
as Hugh Webster
Pacific Challenge
as Narrator
All Stars
as Harry Stabling
Murder or Mercy
as Dr. Eric Stoneman